> If it is at all decent, sell your bike at a secondhand shop. I once
recovered
> my stolen mountain bike months later, taken from a rice irrigation canal.
It
> was all rusted out, including the cables, and covered with mud and dead
leaves.
> They gave me 3,000 yen cash for it, and tried to sell it for 6,000, as was
that
> shop's norm with used bikes. They didn't even bother to clean it up or fix
it.
>


This wouldn't work here in Tokyo (Mitaka area). The city office (recycle
center) pickes them up for free... but last year the came with a truck and
left empty again since 4 usable bikes were not good enough! They understand
recycling as "instant reselling without doing anything else".
Another good way is scatching your yellow stickers off and leave the bike
close to the station. Then they will collect it for free...
My home center takes the old bicycle if you buy a new one.

Sigi



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